To secretly think the posters who are men on MN must be big jessies?

[ssd]

I know I'll get pelters for this, but I do wonder about the male posters who are on here regularly,( I don't mean guys who post very seldom)

it's just that MN reminds me of chatting to other mums at the school gates and most guys I know would rather run a mile than stand with a group of mum's chewing the fat ( and guys who do love chatting to a group of women - )

dh uses chat rooms to discuss football and that's about it

will have to hide now.

I think the male input enriches MN. I like the fact there are men who have opinions on family life

and hunker, thanks for feeling sorry for me, your [pity] makes all the difference

What mrsruffalo said.

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I like the fact that there are a few very pleasant, calm, thinking men on here- I think they post from a very different and interesting viewpoint.

The Duke is not a jessie. [indignant]

Also, our school mums & dads talk to each other all the time. It's not flirty or stilted or weird in anyway.

ssd, maybe you need to meet some other real life men!

or maybe not!

you're right hatrick!

its probably the way I view using MN, I think its like having a coffee with your mates and I couldn't imagine many guys wanting to go out for coffee with a load if girls, but I'm maybe looking at it the wrong way

YABU and have a rather warped view of the world.

did any men dare post on this thread

Just remembered how Dh felt when he took voluntary redundancy last year. he said he felt really isolated especially at the school gates.
He said that no one would speak to him and if he tried to talk to someone they looked at him as if he'd crawled from under a stone.
Men are people too!

what a strange thread. no of course they arent big jessies.

Just because your, and my DH, wouldn't chat on here doesn't mean that another male who does is a jessie!

I got on really well with Hub2Dee and miss him and he was no jessie.

Why because a man can chat to a forum of mainly women and be comfortable is that jessie like?

To shy away from it beacuse its mainly women on here is more jessie like if you ask me!

My dh until recently would take ds to be weighed and all the mums there would talk to him about ds and now he has a new job and cant go they still talk to him when they see him in town. My friends dh doesn't do anything with their dd unless they are in public then he'll push her buggy and play with her. I'd rather men took an intrest in the dc

Oh fgs, and on another thread we have the question being asked "why aren't men and women equal wrt housework/work/childcare"? Hmm, well women not wanting men to be involved would be a contributory factor I'd say. And that's a shame.

And why would men who are interested in parenting/new stories/health/all the subjects on mumsnet be "jessies"? Utter crap.

YANBU to 'secretly think' it, but starting a thread is not really keeping your thoughts secret is it?

But you can of course think what you like!

I have posted this loads of times and have never found the original survey, despite a quick google, but there was some survey ages ago that showed that men who are involved in childcare and housework and so on have more sex with their wives and partners. This seems blindingly obvious to me and I bet they do, I am far more up for it if I haven't been treated like a housekeeper (oo er, ykwim!)

I find being able to look after children and do housework capably an extremely attractive characteristic in a man and find dh cooking dinner with the children swoonsome.

My dh does loads of housework and is a much better cook than I am. I'm getting him to teach me.

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